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Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting...
ISBN: 9780295746111
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Pangs of Love and Other Writings
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an...
ISBN: 9780295745398
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Oceans of Longing
Nine Stories
Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924–2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition...
ISBN: 9786162151491
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Red Gerberas
Short Stories
Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt with a single theme—“love and wanderlust,” which are “two...
ISBN: 9786162151507
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The Appointment
The Tale of Adaline Carson
The action of this novel takes place in the West, but it is not a “Western”; and though its central focus is the life of Adaline Carson, daughter of the famed frontiersman Kit Carson, it is also...
ISBN: 9780899241630
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A Kind of Solitude
Stories
Set in Cuba, largely after the fall of the Soviet Union, these eleven stories explore themes of isolation and preservation in the face of widespread poverty and sociopolitical oppression. From a...
ISBN: 9780999005033
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Skookum Summer
A Novel of the Pacific Northwest
As Skookum Summer begins, the year is 1981, and reporter Tom Dawson slinks back to his tiny Puget Sound hometown after making a disastrous mistake at the LA Times. Working reluctantly...
ISBN: 9780295995618
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Scent of Apples
A Collection of Stories
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples...
ISBN: 9780295995113
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Yokohama, California
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with...
ISBN: 9780295994741
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Temple Grove
A Novel
Deep in the heart of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula lies Temple Grove, one of the last stands of ancient Douglas fir not protected from logging. Bill Newton, a gyppo logger desperate for work...
ISBN: 9780295994246
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No-No Boy
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published...
ISBN: 9780295994048
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Nikolai's Fortune
As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik’s great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind....
ISBN: 9780295992334
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The Shadows of Owls
A Novel
In a literary thriller about science, power, and the lives of ordinary people, John Keeble tells the story of a woman whose passion for her work puts herself and her family at serious risk.Kate...
ISBN: 9780295993157
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Fifth Chinese Daughter
Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong’s story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the author’s first twenty-four...
ISBN: 9780295968261
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Paper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of highcomedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets,...
ISBN: 9780295980799
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Ventriloquisms
Secretion. Excretion. Severed limbs, lost animals, and porcelain teeth. In these twenty-four radical works of female (dis)embodiment and creation—cries from the dark filtered through the fitful...
ISBN: 9780999005002
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The Women on the Island
Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, “the women on the island”...
ISBN: 9780295981086
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Homebase
A Novel
Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked...
ISBN: 9780295988160
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Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated...
ISBN: 9780295979458
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Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories
The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the...
ISBN: 9780295976372
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